This isn't entirely far from the truth. I've seen comment boards where pretty much any dirty word is allowed to fly but using 'torture' or 'rape' in a comment will bring up the 'awaiting moderation' flag.
"We're gonna re-re-re-re-remake Avatar right there (pointing at globe). No, not in the ocean, inside the ocean, in the heaviest, deepest, most brutal part - the MARIANA TREEEEENNCH! We're gonna call the sequal Avatar 2: BLOOOOD OCEAN!"
Above all, IEEE Spectrum tries really hard to associate engineers with terrorism for some reason.
Well, of course they would. Everyone knows chicks dig bad boys. And there's no more Apollo program or nuclear testing or other "big science" stuff to boast about. Gotta protect the rep, knawmean?
Hear, hear! Back in the day in the USA, before cellular, VoIP, and cordless phones, and when every home or office had at least one Model 2500 phone, no one ever complained about sound quality. Real mikes, real speakers, real bells, real buttons with springs in them, and a corded handset that could double as a weapon in a pinch. Sigh. Good times, good times.
- (looking at the drawing) Wow, you must have a lot of free time to do something like this.
- No, I'm usually quite busy. I just set aside half and hour every other day for a few months to work on it, and when it was nearly completed, I finished it up last Sunday night, after the century bike tour.
- Well, that's just amazing, it must take a lot of discipline to - Wow Hey! A double rainbow! (points up, then delivers a suckerpunch and runs off.)
(A reply from the man himself - Cheers!) I didn't intend to imply you're lab was working for the manufacturers. There are certainly many manufacturers who do *not* encourage others to try and find flaws in their products, much less appreciate them for pointing them out; quite the opposite it usually seems. That's all I meant by your group having their "approval". (And by "funded" I meant as opposed to some guy in his garage figuring out how to jailbreak a smartphone.) I was more questioning the use of language in the article, but since your group uses the term hacking in reference to its own work its probably fair for the writer to use it as well.
Time for someone to really get their geek on and translate "Ode To A Small Lump Of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning". I'd imagine it's military applications would greatly interest the Klingons, although they'd probably consider it a dishonorable method of combat.
Even respecting the working-all-day-and-night-in-the-basement-computer-lab origin of the term, using 'hacker' in the article seems like a blatant attempt to jazz it up, making it at first glance seem to be more about something akin to bank heist than a story about funded researches working in a university lab trying to find flaws in a security system, with the manufacturer's full approval to boot.
- Yeah, I been thinking about what you told me last week, but I've been looking into some of the associate programs down at the community college, like automotive repair, or maybe nursing, and, like, I could be making like forty grand a year in about two years? Plus I've been talking to my brother's buddy Dan, who just got back from two tours in Afghanistan, and he's really having a tough time readjusting to civilian life. Like, his back is all screwed up from this one non-com accident so he can't work, so he's just been sitting on the couch playing X-BOX all day and he's gained like fifty pounds, and he smashed up this one guy's car with a tire iron just caused he honked at him after the light turned green, y'know? And I heard his fiance took the baby and moved back in with her parents after he punched her out in his sleep for God's sake. So I mean it sound like a great opportunity and all, but I talked it over with my folks, and after weighing the pros and cons I'm gonna hafta say....
- Has anyone talked to you yet about our new flying humvee program? (hands him a picture of the concept vehicle)
- (studies the picture for about ten seconds, then looks up) Go on...
Watching their human helplessly and impotently flail his/her arms about in the direction of this thing making this godawful ultrasonic racket their pitiful master seems unable to stop. I fear many a pricey device are going to fall victim to a sudden outbreak of misplaced canine heroics.
It's more likely that there's something going on between the Guild and Apple.
Unlike Amazon, Apple stays out of the Guild's way. One Infinite Loop is crawling with Strangers. Who do you think arranged their contract with Foxconn? You think all those "suicides" were from worker stress? Keep dreaming. Guild work is clean, professional. It's surgical with them. In a way they're the only organization Steve Jobs still respects. And they don't get dames get in the way!
- All too easy.
- I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
- You will be. You will be.
- All right, I'll try...
- Do, or do not! There is no try!
- I..can't. It's too big!
- Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?
- I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain.
- Laugh it up, fuzzball!
- You have your moments. Not many of them, but you do have them.
- Control, control, you must learn control!
- Would it help if I got out and pushed?
- It might!
- You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Obi-Wan did!
- Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger! Only your hatred can destroy me!
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This isn't entirely far from the truth. I've seen comment boards where pretty much any dirty word is allowed to fly but using 'torture' or 'rape' in a comment will bring up the 'awaiting moderation' flag.
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Isn't it about time Twitter got it's own topic icon?
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"We're gonna re-re-re-re-remake Avatar right there (pointing at globe). No, not in the ocean, inside the ocean, in the heaviest, deepest, most brutal part - the MARIANA TREEEEENNCH! We're gonna call the sequal Avatar 2: BLOOOOD OCEAN!"
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Above all, IEEE Spectrum tries really hard to associate engineers with terrorism for some reason.
Well, of course they would. Everyone knows chicks dig bad boys. And there's no more Apollo program or nuclear testing or other "big science" stuff to boast about. Gotta protect the rep, knawmean?
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"Go ahead . . . take it from me!"
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It was in a way actually simpler. You just dialed the party you wanted to text and tapped out morse code on the handset with the back of a spoon.
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Hear, hear! Back in the day in the USA, before cellular, VoIP, and cordless phones, and when every home or office had at least one Model 2500 phone, no one ever complained about sound quality. Real mikes, real speakers, real bells, real buttons with springs in them, and a corded handset that could double as a weapon in a pinch. Sigh. Good times, good times.
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I, for one, welcome our new...ah, skip it.
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- (looking at the drawing) Wow, you must have a lot of free time to do something like this.
- No, I'm usually quite busy. I just set aside half and hour every other day for a few months to work on it, and when it was nearly completed, I finished it up last Sunday night, after the century bike tour.
- Well, that's just amazing, it must take a lot of discipline to - Wow Hey! A double rainbow! (points up, then delivers a suckerpunch and runs off.)
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If you prefer pictures and you attention span isn't what it should be, check out Comic Book Comics. Twisted tales indeed!
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(A reply from the man himself - Cheers!) I didn't intend to imply you're lab was working for the manufacturers. There are certainly many manufacturers who do *not* encourage others to try and find flaws in their products, much less appreciate them for pointing them out; quite the opposite it usually seems. That's all I meant by your group having their "approval". (And by "funded" I meant as opposed to some guy in his garage figuring out how to jailbreak a smartphone.) I was more questioning the use of language in the article, but since your group uses the term hacking in reference to its own work its probably fair for the writer to use it as well.
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Time for someone to really get their geek on and translate "Ode To A Small Lump Of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning". I'd imagine it's military applications would greatly interest the Klingons, although they'd probably consider it a dishonorable method of combat.
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Even respecting the working-all-day-and-night-in-the-basement-computer-lab origin of the term, using 'hacker' in the article seems like a blatant attempt to jazz it up, making it at first glance seem to be more about something akin to bank heist than a story about funded researches working in a university lab trying to find flaws in a security system, with the manufacturer's full approval to boot.
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(recruiter's office)
- Yeah, I been thinking about what you told me last week, but I've been looking into some of the associate programs down at the community college, like automotive repair, or maybe nursing, and, like, I could be making like forty grand a year in about two years? Plus I've been talking to my brother's buddy Dan, who just got back from two tours in Afghanistan, and he's really having a tough time readjusting to civilian life. Like, his back is all screwed up from this one non-com accident so he can't work, so he's just been sitting on the couch playing X-BOX all day and he's gained like fifty pounds, and he smashed up this one guy's car with a tire iron just caused he honked at him after the light turned green, y'know? And I heard his fiance took the baby and moved back in with her parents after he punched her out in his sleep for God's sake. So I mean it sound like a great opportunity and all, but I talked it over with my folks, and after weighing the pros and cons I'm gonna hafta say....
- Has anyone talked to you yet about our new flying humvee program? (hands him a picture of the concept vehicle)
- (studies the picture for about ten seconds, then looks up) Go on...
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...now that it's too late.
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Beyond Bluetooth - taking lookin' crazy in public to a whole other level!
- Give this lady some room! She's having a seizure!
- Huh, what? Who me? No, no, 'scool. I'm just watching the US Open...Yes! You go Serena!
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Watching their human helplessly and impotently flail his/her arms about in the direction of this thing making this godawful ultrasonic racket their pitiful master seems unable to stop. I fear many a pricey device are going to fall victim to a sudden outbreak of misplaced canine heroics.
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Well, to hear Alan Moore and Peter Bagge tell it, the ol' jug's had some rough times himself. He wishes he could stop friggin' smiling!
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The look the little girl gives the camera at the end of the commercial always made me giggle a bit. It seemed to say "What? This is it? Seriously?"
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Otherwise I would hate it with a firey hate.
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And they don't let dames get in the way!
It's like you channel crazy dead people!
You think it's a cry for help?
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It's more likely that there's something going on between the Guild and Apple.
Unlike Amazon, Apple stays out of the Guild's way. One Infinite Loop is crawling with Strangers. Who do you think arranged their contract with Foxconn? You think all those "suicides" were from worker stress? Keep dreaming. Guild work is clean, professional. It's surgical with them. In a way they're the only organization Steve Jobs still respects. And they don't get dames get in the way!
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The Great American Traffic Jam More to the point and much funnier, with a stellar b-list cast! The epitome of the 70s car comedies. (Not on DVD? WTF!)
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Penn and Teller are cool but keep in mind they're also stooges for the Cato Institute, which offers it's own mixtures of truth and bullshit.
This show is admittedly and unrepentantly biased, which makes it a poor source of reference.
Supposedly their last episode will be entitled " 'Bullshit!' is Bullshit! ", explaining all this. We'll see.
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- All too easy.
- I won't fail you. I'm not afraid.
- You will be. You will be.
- All right, I'll try...
- Do, or do not! There is no try!
- I..can't. It's too big!
- Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?
- I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain.
- Laugh it up, fuzzball!
- You have your moments. Not many of them, but you do have them.
- Control, control, you must learn control!
- Would it help if I got out and pushed?
- It might!
- You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Obi-Wan did!
- Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger! Only your hatred can destroy me!
(Later...)
- How was it for you?
- Han shot first.
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